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Giveaway: cubo Sound System from sonoro

by Tsh Oxenreider

Tsh is the founder of this blog and is currently traveling around the world with her husband and 3 kids. Her latest book is Notes From a Blue Bike, and believes a passport is one of the world's greatest textbooks.

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Welcome to Simple Living Media’s Home for the Holidays! We’ve got 25 giveaways across the entire network this week to give you plenty of chances to win a great gift, just in time for the holidays.

It’s been such a fun week — I love blessing you guys with the chance to win these great gifts for the holidays. We really do have the best readers around here. So for the grand finale here, today I’m giving away this sonoro cubo , valued at $299!

This beautiful piece is a CD player, mp3 player, radio, and alarm clock. And the sound for something so small is impeccable.

Have a music lover in your life? Or just a gadget guy? Learn more about this company and how to win this cubo.

As soon as the FedEx guy pulled in to our driveway, Kyle shot out of his seat and ran out the door like he’d just seen Santa. He knew sonoro was sending us their cubo, and — well, let’s just say Kyle has a special relationship with gadgets. He couldn’t wait to get his mitts on this thing.

And that’s just what he did after he opened the box — except first, he put the enclosed white gloves on his mitts.

This sound system is beautiful.Beautiful. And I don’t call electronics beautiful very often. This music player is only about 8×10 inches, barely taking up any space on our shelf, and it looks modern and sophisticated. That’s my kind of electronic — the smaller, the better, in my opinion.

Each cubo is wrapped in all wood, and either hand sprayed and polished to a high gloss lacquer, or wrapped in real wood veneer. Ours is black, and it works perfectly in our simple home. Tate, of course, wished it were pink. We told her to enter today’s giveaway and maybe she can get her own.

(Just kidding. She’s not allowed to enter the giveaway.)

Most importantly, the sound is exquisite. We play music around our house nearly non-stop, so our cubo has already logged plenty of hours. Up till now, we’ve plugged in simple portable speakers to our iPods. That works okay. But the sonoro cubo picks up on layers and form to music I didn’t know I was missing.

Just a few days ago, in fact, I was playing Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear, and on the track While You Wait for the Others, I heard guitars I didn’t even know were in the song. I had to play it again. And I was mesmerized. (That’s also because this band is absolutely amazing. They’re Reed’s favorite right now.)

We’ve also plugged our television in to the cubo for our family movie night, and the sound is better from there than the TV itself. Go figure.

Lapine is the exclusive U.S. sonoro Audio distributor, and Sonoro is a German company, a region known for its design and engineering. Founded in 2005, sonoro audio set out to redefine the audio world. The goal – to replace drab, plastic radios and desktop devices that resemble household appliances with high style, high quality compact audio solutions.

sonoro creates other high-quality sound systems as well. Their elements w also plays Internet radio and includes a high-quality remote control, and their eklipse includes a top-loading iPod loading dock and a remote control that will even operate your mp3 player.

Each cubo comes complete with a Certificate of Authenticity. These minimalist alarm clock radios and CD/mp3 players are made for the iPod generation. sonoro products are recognized as innovative, easy to use and distinctive by numerous experts in the consumer electronics and design fields.

One Simple Mom reader will win a sonoro cubo!

How to win

Everyone has two chances to win. Here’s how:

1. Comment on this post, answering this question: What is your favorite Christmas song?

2. For an extra entry, follow Simple Mom on Twitter, and tweet about this giveaway. Make sure you include my Twitter handle, the post’s URL, and the hashtag #sonoro. Your tweet can be something like this:

Win a German designed sound system from #sonoro and @simplemom! http://bit.ly/ehYhAk #Giveaway is today only.

This giveaway will end tonight, Friday, December 3 at 11:59 p.m. I hope you win! We’ll announce the winners of all the holiday giveaways at the end of the week.

My favorite holiday song — ooooo that’s hard. I am so bad at list making and putting anything at #1. I can usually narrow it to a top 5. But off the top of my head, I’ll go with Nat King Cole’s “Christmas Song” as my mom always played that when we were little. It reminds me of her.

My favorite Christmas song would be Ave Maria by the Kents. You can find it on an album called An Elephant Hug vol. 3. It’s actually free on elephanthug.com. (I don’t know any of the musicians or have anything to do with them, by the way. – I just really like the albums.)

All the songs from Bing Crosby’s old Christmas albums just make me think Christmas because we always listened to them on old records when we decorated the tree. I’m particularly fond of his Silent Night and Mele Kalikimaka.

My favorite Christmas song is White Christmas. We always watched the movie when I was a kid, and we loved it all the more for its military theme since my father was in the U.S. Army (as my grandfather was in the Navy and my brother is now in the Air Force). Now this song reminds me of sharing time with my family I adore even if they’re across the country or the world (and they are!).

I love O Holy Night. I also love While You Wait for the Others. I’m in reading, not writing mode right now, so I wasn’t going to use my one tired hand (the other being pinned by a sleeping babe) to enter the giveaway, but then you had to go and hook me with the mention of hidden guitars . . .

My favourite is an Australian one that is actually suitable for our climate and the fact that Christmas falls in the middle of summer, and not winter.

It is called Christmas Day and starts like this;

The north wind is tossing the leaves,
The red dust is over the town;
The sparrows are under the eaves,
And the grass in the paddock is brown
As we lift up our voices and sing
To the Christ-Child the Heavenly King…………